republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/sb-17-173.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Finance Mid-year Adjustments"
description: "Joint Budget Committee. The general assembly recognizes that the actual funded pupil count and the actual at-risk pupil count were less than anticipated during the 2016 legislative session. In addition, local property tax and specific ownership tax receipts were less than anticipated, reducing the local share of total program funding. The bill reflects the general assembly's intent to maintain the state share of school districts' total program funding at the level of the original appropriation during the 2016 legislative session, and to adjust total program funding, after application of the negative factor, to reflect a reduction in the negative factor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "SB 17-173"
citation: "Colorado SB 17-173 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kent Lambert", "Millie Hamner"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-03-01T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5a5eae8-464f-4b8a-860f-47c073f7e715"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-173"
source_hash: "198eac02f6f319ef620f2156f130abb6b12eee54aea3bbfa016cbab44522fa2f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 17-173 (2017A) — School Finance Mid-year Adjustments

Joint Budget Committee. The general assembly recognizes that the actual funded pupil count and the actual at-risk pupil count were less than anticipated during the 2016 legislative session. In addition, local property tax and specific ownership tax receipts were less than anticipated, reducing the local share of total program funding. The bill reflects the general assembly's intent to maintain the state share of school districts' total program funding at the level of the original appropriation during the 2016 legislative session, and to adjust total program funding, after application of the negative factor, to reflect a reduction in the negative factor.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017a/bills/cr/2017A_SB173_H_APP_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/09/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/22/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/03/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/10/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/16/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/15/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/01/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_173_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Refer Senate Bill 17-173 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 6-1. The motion passed on a vote of 6-1. — **6–1** (pass) · legislature
- Refer Senate Bill 17-173 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — **13–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kent Lambert — primary (person)
- Millie Hamner — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2017-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2017-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5a5eae8-464f-4b8a-860f-47c073f7e715`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).